11tE NE.WYORKER 15 PARJS LeTTeR T HE subscrip- t ion recently. opened here to pur- chase f or Isadora Duncan her former house in N euill y, , { which would then become L'École Commémorative de Danse Isadora Duncan,. has elicited curious and evocative responses from the Parisian public. The subscription list, printed daily in C omædia, con- tains the names of grateful countesses, real and false, poets f ro.m the Pampas who cable Spanish eights, the Marquis de Castellane, feminists, Harry Pil- cers and Jenny Golders, poor students, bankers and rich communist politi- cians. Two theatre electricians, out of work, sent in twenty francs. Forty francs was sent by a taxi chauffeur, "grateful for the big tips he used to receive from Madame Duncan when she was rich." An Hommage à Isadora is to be held at the Salle Comædia, where art works will be sold In her behalf, notably a rare cast by Bour- delle, canvases of Sagonzac, the manuscript of Messager's "L' Amour Masqué," etc. For the benefit of possibl y grate f ul taxi dri vers in New York who. might wish to contribute money or other works of art, your cor- respondent announces that a sum of 360,000 francs must be raised and that Madame Y orska, recalled as the spirited founder of Le Théâtre Fran- çais of New York, can be addressed care of C omædia, Paris, by those to whom Isadora's art still means the esthetics of America's youth. ... .........::::- :,èk,..", B.&!#.:' f:)?t , ,'. i ...<ifm@';i: i, !.& 1 llî w :<- .:"t _fi,ti}{g ; :H v. t :. ^,, t .èÆ, "" Jffjif. !Æi B :::.::;Ø? -i n .-.::.y';} .:1: (::;. : j }r- !} .;.::. -;;:::..::. ' "" .: t:. :;:'" : , " . ... i , ' , ; m t: ;; 1 ': . ;- : :r .. ; f)gi' ií, tl øø -( I øt1 i It , Posed by VERRI TEASDALE. in The "Constant Wife" O THE R momentary Parisian events are equally United States. At this season of the year the play's the thing-but not if it comes from a French pen. "Madame Ne Veut Pas d'Enfant," arranged from Clé- ment Vautel's novel about the bride who preferred cocktails to cradles, is the latest proof that French dramatists know little about either. "Son Mari," by the old-stager Paul Géraldy, deals with a wife who says she has a lover when she hasn't. One infers Géraldy k.nows even less about wives. Indeed, the old typical Parisian play of do- mestic cosmopolitan intrigue has fallen into a dry rot on which Somerset Maugham's coarse co.lonial "Pluie" descends with refreshing obliteration. In this version of Manhattan's "Rain," Jane Marnac as J ann The Simple but Effec- tive Type of Thing the Tailored W olllan Knows and Does So Well THlE T AJIJLORlED WOMAN 632 FIFTH AVENUE AT 50TH STREET Opposit th Cath dral